The Mle 1914 Hotchkiss machine gun chambered for the 8mm Lebel cartridge became the standard machine gun of the French Army during World War I. It was manufactured by the French arms company Hotchkiss et Cie which had been established in the 1860s by American industrialist Benjamin B. Hotchkiss.
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length (km)
1.39
weight (kg)
24040.8
origin
French Third Republic
type
Medium machine gun
used in war
World War II, Mexican Revolution, Algerian War, Second Sino-Japanese War, World War I, Spanish Civil War, First Indochina War, Polish–Soviet War
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